It's not illegal to be an asshole.

That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.

I always want to be a member in the audience, and I want to hear it from their point of view and see it from their point of view so I can know if it's good. But that's just my issues, not a real problem.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.